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Artificial institutions : a model of institutional reality for open multiagent systems

  • Fornara, Nicoletta Istituto di tecnologie della comunicazione (ITC), Facoltà di scienze della comunicazione, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
  • Viganò, Francesco Istituto di tecnologie della comunicazione (ITC), Facoltà di scienze della comunicazione, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
  • Verdicchio, Mario Universitµa degli Studi di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
  • Colombetti, Marco Istituto di tecnologie della comunicazione (ITC), Facoltà di scienze della comunicazione, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
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    2008
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  • Artificial Intelligence and Law. - Springer Netherlands. - 2008, vol. 16, no. 1, p. 89-105
English Software agents' ability to interact within different open systems, designed by different groups, presupposes an agreement on an unambiguous definition of a set of concepts, used to describe the context of the interaction and the communication language the agents can use. Agents' interactions ought to allow for reliable expectations on the possible evolution of the system; however, in open systems interacting agents may not conform to predefined specifications. A possible solution is to define interaction environments including a normative component, with suitable rules to regulate the behaviour of agents. To tackle this problem we propose an application-independent meta-model of artificial institutions that can be used to define open multiagent systems. In our view an artificial institution is made up by an ontology that models the social context of the interaction, a set of authorizations to act on the institutional context, a set of linguistic conventions for the performance of institutional actions and a system of norms that are necessary to constrain the agents' actions.
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